Beautiful stupidity?

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote on 06/03/10 16:14:
>...
> In my opinion, this is the worst design change since the decision to
> hide incoming IMs and phone calls from the user, and instead just
> subtly changing the color of a small icon.
>...

I know this is a tangent, but: That wasn't an Ubuntu decision, it was a
series of unfortunate individual decisions. The Ubuntu position was, and
is, that a notification area item is not enough to advertise an incoming
IM or phone call, and that clients should open chat windows in the
background (and phone call windows in the foreground). The Empathy
developers disagreed, and continued relying on the notification area
item. Moving Empathy into the messaging menu just made things slightly
worse. And then the Human icon theme changes that arrived late in Karmic
made things slightly worse again. It was different people doing each of
these things.

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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